Wednesday, October 10, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUTCH!!! Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925), better known as Elmore Leonard, is a MAJOR American novelist and screenwriter living in Bloomfield Village, Michigan...

(Note: This blog was written in 2012. Dutch has, sadly, passed away since that time. R.I.P. Dutch)

Elmore Leonard

"Dutch"

His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns...

Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures...

Among his best-known works are Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk and Rum Punch, which was filmed as Jackie Brown...

Leonard's short stories include ones that became the films 3:10 to Yuma and The Tall T, as well as the current TV series on FX, Justified…

"Dutch," as he is sometimes called—got his first break in the fiction market during the 1950s, regularly publishing pulp western novels. He has since forayed into mystery, crime, and more topical genres, as well as screenwriting…

“Dutch” won the very prestigious F. Scott Fitzgerald Award in 2008…

"Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing":

"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." He also hints: "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.”

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